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Settings Needed To Run Camera

Use channela to talk to the front-end board in the "Variables" tab:

  • send escape right away after powering up
  • linkmode: medium
  • datamode: 8bit
  • framemode: our camera only gives a line valid (indication that there is valid data) so we need to set to "line"
  • tapcount: our camera sends 4 bytes where it could send 6
  • baudrate: 9600
  • use sendGCP to test serial link is working (output should appear on terminal)
  • swcontrolvalue/swcontrolen: bits for hardware vs software trigger (0/0 internal trigger)
  • dataen: enables the data block (leave false until able to receive data)
  • running: status bit (am I getting frames from camera)
  • dropcount: 3 channels misaligned (errors)
    • have to set both sender/receiver to "medium".  send these TLC strings to the camera

Now tell the camera how to send data using these three-letter-commands (TLC) in the "Commands" tab:

  • CLM 1 (cameralink medium mode)
  • SVM 1 (test pattern ramp)
  • SSF 1 (software trigger rate 1Hz, although seems to read back as 6Hz? and 2 reads back as 12Hz?)
  • dataen: enables the data block (leave false until able to receive data)
  • running: status bit (am I getting frames from camera)
  • dropcount: 3 channels misaligned (errors)

Camera output should appear on terminal after setting ClinkTop->ChannelA->DataEn to True

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